· Private foundation
Fore River Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $654k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $881k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trust for Public Lands | $128,000 |
| Brennan Center for Justice | $125,000 |
| Earthjustice | $120,000 |
| Center for Science in the Public Inter | $100,000 |
| Maine Family Planning | $100,000 |
| Center for Reproductive Rights | $77,000 |
| Land and Garden Preserve | $65,000 |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $61,000 |
| University of Maine | $55,000 |
| News Literacy Project | $50,000 |
| Guttmacher Institute | $43,000 |
| Constitutional Accountability Center | $40,000 |
| Friends of Acadia | $36,000 |
| St Timothy's School | $35,000 |
| The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
131 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +119%
EARTHJUSTICE8× · 2018–2025 · $705k · revenue +114%- FOFriends of Acadia8× · 2017–2025 · $684k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Virginiaone grant, 2023 · $100k
- HHHELPING HANDS OF ROUND PONDone grant, 2024 · $60k · 30% of their budget
- SHSOUTHWEST HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +104%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
How this is measured
139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 139 of the 228 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING ↗
- Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds GROWSMART MAINE ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
- Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHE SHOULD RUN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds BAR HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF ROUND POND ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Horizon Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fore River Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fore River Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
- Grub Street Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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